I've had sites annoy me with their password requirements before, but I'd just like to thank paypal for taking things to a whole new level of stupidity. I wanted to change my password, but apparently unless I use 36 characters, alternating between lower and upper case letters, and interspersed with random numbers and symbols, it's not safe enough. Anything even remotely resembling a word is unacceptable. Paypal's goal is to ensure that you could never, under any circumstances remember your own password, forcing you to look it up every time you want to login. I can't wait until someone comes along and finally puts this site to rest. Yes, this is a minor issue, but it's one of many, and it's time for someone to come along and do this right.
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